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When you hear ‘Drag Queen’, most people immediately picture the slender and feminine-looking artist with (usually) big, blonde hair, lots of glittery make-up and maybe even a feather boa? This is the stereotypical image of a drag artist – so when Le Gateau Chocolat comes out onto the stage, audiences can sometimes find themselves quite [...]

The first time I (Julie Robinson) spoke to Mark Smith, Artistic Director of Spike Theatre, it was to interview him for an article (Crowd Funding – We’re All In This Together!) that explored the route of crowd funding as a viable alternative to ACE Funding. At the time, Spike Theatre had just received the disappointing [...]

Started up in 2010 with the aim of showcasing new talent and providing creative opportunities, fledgling theatre company Amarillo Arts is off to Edinburgh next month with new show The Yellow Wallpaper. Based on an early feminist text by American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman about a confined woman who forms a growing obsession with the [...]

Performance poet Luke Wright has been working hard over the last few years to bring poetry to a wider audience, becoming a poet-in-residence on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live, writing poetry for Channel 4 films and taking his poetry shows to festivals and venues up and down the country. With Latitude just around the corner, [...]

Nice Swan Theatre Company was established in 2009 as a way of providing a stepping stone from amateur to professional theatre productions for talented under-25-year-olds in the North East. They have earned themselves a reputation for staging the highest-quality productions and continue to grow and evolve. STEVE BURBRIDGE found out more from Jamie Gray, the [...]

Now three thousand years old, the tragic tale of Medea has been reincarnated in a modern adaptation by writer Stella Duffy, drawing chilling parallels with current political questions about immigration and national security. Jason returns home from war triumphant, bringing with him with Medea, a princess of the nation he has conquered, and the two [...]

‘Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.’ Where there are people, there will always be missed opportunities. A distrust of the new and unknown exists in all walks of life and, instead of embracing [...]

Described as the funny Derren Brown, internationally acclaimed mentalist Doug Segal is completing his current UK tour with a run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of The Laughing Horse Free Festival. Catherine Love caught up with him to talk about his unique blend of mind reading, comedy and audience interaction. How did you [...]